Ruptured Live // CALAMITA Launch Concert // Beirut Open Space

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Calamita (Sharif Sehnaoui, Tony Elieh & Davide Zolli) – Calamita
CD Release by Ruptured, December 2017
Launch concert at Beirut Open Space on December 19, 2017

For its new CD release “Calamita”, Lebanese indie label Ruptured presents a concert with a unique line-up of experimental musicians: Sharif Sehnaoui (electric guitar) & Tony Elieh (electric bass), from bands Bao, Electric Wormholes and Karkhana, will be joined by special guests Khyam Allami (drums) & Sam Shalabi (electric guitar), playing live for the 1st time at Beirut Open Space.

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GIZZMO // Interview // 27 November 2017

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Lebanese electro-pop band GIZZMO (Joy Moughanni, Alex Chahine and Camilio El Khoury) were the guests of Ruptures on Radio Liban 96.2FM, for an interview detailing the production of their first EP “System Failure”, on Fantôme de Nuit Records.

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Ruptured Album Release // THE BUNNY TYLERS // Chance Meetings

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The Bunny Tylers – Chance Meetings
CD & LP Release by Ruptured, January 2018

On celebrating cold tobacco and cheap aftershave, eternal sunsets and surfer suicides, Film Noir and Thomas Pynchon, and the mighty power of the drone…

The Bunny Tylers is a drone/ambient group from Beirut, Lebanon, whose core consists of guitarists Charbel Haber (Scrambled Eggs, Malayeen, Johnny Kafta’s Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra) and Fadi Tabbal (The Incompetents, Under the Carpet, Safar), often joined on stage by Pascal Semerdjian and Marwan Tohmé from folk band Postcards. Operating firmly outside of any musical trends, at the heart of Bunny Tylers is the desire to tie musical loose ends and threads derived as much from the two men’s solo records, as a very tangible teenage dream of remaking My Bloody Valentine’s “Loveless”.

The duo initially came together in 2013 to compose and record incidental music for Nadim Tabet and Karine Wehbe’s video essay “Summer of 91”. They began exploring different guitar bowing techniques, set amidst a loose and free-flowing musical frame, away from rigid compositional stratagems. Preoccupied with texture rather than finite structure, guitar drones and intricate pedal-work set the ambience and mood for Haber’s lyrics of self-reflection and existential bleakness. Love stories indeed, albeit ones engrossed with the inexorable progress of the Grim Reaper.

The Bunny Tylers’ first album, “Glitches & Drones 2013-2016”, was released by Ruptured in 2016. The duo’s second album was recorded by Benoit de Villeneuve (from Team Ghost and a collaborator of M83) in Paris in the summer of 2017. The CD version of the album was released during the 2017 edition of Wickerpark Festival, while LP and digital versions will be available starting January 2018.

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Ruptured Album Release // FADI TABBAL // Museum Of Disappearing Buildings

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Fadi Tabbal – Museum of Disappearing Buildings
LP Release by Ruptured & Beacon Sound, October 2017 

Fadi Tabbal, guitarist with Lebanese alternative rock bands The Incompetents and The Bunny Tylers among many others, self-released his second solo album, “Museum of Disappearing Buildings”, in November 2015.

This album continues further the work of sound exploration through guitar treatments, which began with “On the Rooftop Looking Up” in 2013. While the young guitarist’s first album featured a finely-devised interaction of ambient soundscapes and John Fahey-inspired finger-picking acoustic meanderings, this second solo outing adopts a different approach: it relies on an interplay of ambient guitar drones and grainy electronics, which recalls to a degree the work of early Krautrock vanguard artists from the 1970’s, the leftfield exploration of British electro-acoustic practitioners from the mid-1970’s, as well as the radical works of American minimalist composers from the 1960’s.

Similarly to his first outing, Tabbal preferred a radical and direct approach to composition and recording, opting for the intimacy and self-reflection of home recordings, rather than the traditional environment of a recording studio. At the heart of the album, resides one unifying concept, which finds its way into the resulting musical bed: the sketches and impossible structures and urban configurations of Russian paper architects Brodsky and Utkin.

The album will be re-released in October 2017 in a limited vinyl edition of 300 copies, the result of a collaboration between Lebanese label Ruptured and Portland-based indie label Beacon Sound.

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Ruptures Radio Show // WICKERPARK ’17 // 09 September 2017

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A radio program showcasing the 7th edition of Wickerpark Festival, taking place on September 9th, 2017, in Batroun, North Lebanon.

1. The Bunny Tylers: Mothers make murderers
2. The Bunny Tylers: I’ll make it up to you
3. Who Killed Bruce Lee: Enemy at the line
4. Who Killed Bruce Lee: Mastercraft
5. Kinematik: kelmeh oula
6. Hello Psychaleppo: Tarab dub
7. Al Rajul al Hadidi & Chyno: Zam zam
8. Al Rajul al Hadidi & Chyno: Shimmy shimmy ya
9. Hello Psychaleppo: Beirut
10. Kinematik: hhx (live at Tunefork)
11. Alko B: Charlie / and out
12. Alko B: Her heart gets to stay
13. The Bunny Tylers: It seems it all disappears

Ruptured News // September-October 2017

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SEPTEMBER 9
DJ set by Ziad Nawfal at Wickerpark Music Festival 2017

The 7th edition of this outstanding Lebanese festival, set on the shores of the coastal city of Batroun, will feature concerts by Alko B., The Bunny Tylers, Kinematik and Who Killed Bruce Lee, among others.

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SEPTEMBER 9
The Bunny Tylers: “Chance Meetings”
Album launch by Ruptured during Wickerpark Festival 2017

Ruptured releases the CD version of this Lebanese duo’s (Charbel Haber and Fadi Tabbal) 2nd album, recorded by renowned French producer Benoit de Villeneuve during the summer of 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 13
Postcards: “I’ll Be Here In The Morning”
Album launch by Ruptured at Beirut Open Space

Ruptured is proud to welcome in its roster exemplary indie folk quartet Postcards, for the release of the CD version of its latest album. The launch will take place in recently-opened live venue Beirut Open Space, with a DJ set from Ziad Nawfal.

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SEPTEMBER 22
I Am Not A Robot vol. II
DJ night at Yukunkun Club, Beirut

The 2nd installment of this high-octane techno event, featuring the talents of Tamira Soufic, Ziad Nawfal and Essabbagh.

[Visual by Maria Kassab]

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OCTOBER 1 
Munma / Mme Chandelier / Fadi Tabbal
Cinemix “The Woman One Longs For” at Metropolis Cinema

Ruptured, Metropolis and Goethe Institute Lebanon collaborate on this newly commissioned cinemix for Curtis Bernhardt’s classic film from 1929, featuring three of Lebanon’s most talented experimental musicians.

OCTOBER 2017
Fadi Tabbal: Museum of Disappearing Buildings
Album release by Beacon Sound and Ruptured

Lebanese guitarist and producer Fadi Tabbal‘s breathtaking 2nd solo record, initially self-released on CD in 2015, is made available on vinyl by Ruptured and USA-based label Beacon Sound.

Listen to an excerpt and read the review by Fractured Air:
https://fracturedair.com/2017/09/07/first-listen-crystal-palace-by-fadi-tabbal/

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KINEMATIK // Ruptured Session // 06 March 2017

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Lebanese rock quartet KINEMATIK (Mme Chandelier, Rudy Ghafari, Roy Khazen and Akram Hajj) were the guests of Ruptures on Radio Liban 96.2 FM, for an interview revolving around the making and production of their first album ALA’ for indie label Ruptured. The interview was accompanied by several live studio performances of tracks from ALA’, with Fadi Tabbal on sound engineering duties.

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Ruptured Live // KINEMATIK Launch Concert // Station Beirut

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Ruptured is releasing a limited CD+LP edition of mighty Lebanese rock band KINEMATIK‘s first album Ala’, on 11 March 2017 at Station Beirut.

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Ruptured Live // KINEMATIK “Vampyr” Cinemix // Metropolis Cinema

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Ruptured presents VAMPYR
A ciné-concert by Kinematik
Monday 6 February 2017, 8PM
Metropolis Empire Sofil, Achrafieh

A film by Carl Theodor Dreyer
France/Germany, 1932, 75 min, in German with English subtitles
The strange adventures of Allan Gray, a young man whose studies of the Occult have distorted his perception of the real and the unreal.

KINEMATIK
Mme Chandelier: electric guitar
Rudy Ghafari: electronics & keyboards
Roy Khazen: electric bass
Akram Hajj: drums
[Live sound by Fadi Tabbal]

Kinematik is a Lebanese instrumental rock band, whose music blends elements of 70’s psychedelia, progressive rock and post-rock. Kinematik composes instrumental pieces that feature dynamic contrast, strong melodic lines, a heavy use of distortion and effects, and reliance on electronics and synthesizers. Their first album Ala’ will be released by Lebanese indie label Ruptured on LP/CD in 2017.

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